Please and thank you
2007-03-04 12:38:18 · 6 answers · asked by Sk1TtL3z107 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I need two accomplishments please and thank you
2007-03-04 12:40:17 · update #1
www.habitatforhumanity.org, and of coarse some what peaceful resolutions in El Salvador, and Nicaragua
2007-03-04 12:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jimmy Carter has accomplished a lot since leaving the presidency. He is a good person who really cares about humanity and has worked very hard for peace, human rights and dignity for people all over the world.
He has been involved in Habitat for Humanity, but that's just one of many things he has done. See this article on the Habitat site:
http://www.habitat.org/how/carter.aspx
He has a number of programs through the Carter Center. http://www.cartercenter.org/homepage.html
Probably the most well-known is the Democracy Program which monitors democratic elections in developing countries to ensure they are fair. http://www.cartercenter.org/peace/democracy/index.html
Regardless of what people may say about his presidency, he was probably the most honest man to sit in the White House since Lincoln... I have a lot of respect for him.
2007-03-04 21:04:15 · answer #2 · answered by magicalpossibilities 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Habitat for Humanity should be easy to find
I don't know of any others.
2007-03-04 20:43:19 · answer #3 · answered by archangel72901 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Planter's Peanuts is a good start.
2007-03-04 20:45:19 · answer #4 · answered by count_bongula666 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he grew some more peanuts
2007-03-04 20:47:00 · answer #5 · answered by Raymond B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1977
January 20: Inauguration Day. To everyone's surprise, the Carters get out of their limousine and walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House.
January 21: Carter issues a pardon to most of those who evaded the draft in order to avoid going to Vietnam.
February 2: Wearing a cardigan sweater, Carter delivers his first national television address on energy policy.
March 5: "Ask President Carter," the first presidential phone-in radio broadcast, attracts over nine million callers.
March 7-8: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin visits Washington. Questions about the Middle East will dominate Carter's news conference on March 9. Meetings with leaders from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia follow in the coming weeks.
March 30: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance presents an ambitious SALT II arms reduction proposal to Soviet leadership in Moscow, and is strongly rejected.
April: Carter pressures NATO allies to re-arm and demands a commitment of a 3% annual increase in their defense budgets.
April 4: Carter and President Anwar el Sadat of Egypt meet for the first time.
May: In her role as the president's emissary to Latin America, Rosalynn travels to Brazil, Columbia, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
May 22: In a commencement address at Notre Dame, Carter signals the direction he plans to take in foreign policy, rejecting America's "inordinate fear of communism" and calling for a serious commitment to human rights.
June 30: President Carter stops the B-1 bomber program, angering defense conservatives.
July 19: Carter and newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meet for the first time, in Washington.
August 4: A new, cabinet-level Department of Energy is established, headed by James Schlesinger.
September: Allan Bakke, a 37-year-old white man and former Marine, is denied admission to the medical school at University of California-Davis. He sues, charging that less qualified black students have been accepted. The first major challenge to affirmative action policies, the case goes all the way to the Supreme Court.
September 7: Carter and Panamanian president Omar Torrijos Herrera sign the Panama Canal treaties. They provide for control of the canal to be handed over to Panama in 1999, and guarantee the canal's neutrality.
September 15: Carter's budget director, friend and adviser Bert Lance appears before a Senate committee to defend himself against charges that he has improperly used his position for personal gain. Since July, the Lance scandal has grown into a major headache for Carter, as it calls into question the high moral integrity he campaigned on. Lance will resign six days later.
October 1: National security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski convinces Carter to reconvene the Geneva talks on the Middle East as a way to improve U.S.-Soviet relations. The move alarms the leaders of Egypt and Jordan and angers many in the American Jewish community.
October 5: Carter signs the International Covenant on Human Rights.
October 13: In a press conference Carter attacks oil companies for perpetrating "the biggest rip-off in history."
November 15: The Shah of Iran visits the White House, prompting demonstrations by anti-Shah forces.
November 19: Egyptian president Anwar Sadat makes an historic visit to Israel, where he addresses the Israeli parliament, creating a major opportunity for peace in the Middle East.
December: Carter signs a Social Security measure that would keep the system solvent until 2030, resulting in a huge increase in payroll taxes.
December 27: Begin visits Cairo, laying the groundwork for further progress toward peace between Egypt and Israel.
December 31: Carter visits Tehran on New Years' Eve. He toasts the Shah, reiterating American support and calling him "an island of stability" in the troubled region.
1978
February: A nationwide NBC/AP poll reveals that only 34% of Americans think Carter is doing an excellent or good job -- a 21% decline in six months.
March 16: The Senate ratifies the first Panama Canal treaty, after an intensive lobbying effort by the Carter White House.
April 7: Carter defers production of the neutron bomb.
April 18: The Senate ratifies the second Panama Canal treaty.
July 1: Gerald Rafshoon, architect of the Carter campaign's media effort, joins the White House communications team.
July: Senator Kennedy visits Carter at the White House in a last-ditch effort to resolve their differences over national health insurance. Carter wants to phase the program in and make it contingent on the budget. The meeting goes badly and Kennedy accuses the president of a "failure of leadership."
August 5: Carter sends Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to the Middle East with invitations to Sadat and Begin to meet with Carter at Camp David. They immediately accept.
September 4: The Camp David summit begins.
September 17: Begin and Sadat sign the historic Camp David accords.
October 15: Congress passes a version of Carter's energy package.
December: The Democratic Party holds a mid-term conference in Memphis, Tennessee. The Carter administration comes under fire from the liberal wing of the party for its effort to balance the budget at the expense of domestic social programs.
December 15: The Carter administration announces that it will normalize relations with the People's Republic of China, completing a process begun by the Nixon administration.
1979
January 16: The Shah flees Iran after a year of growing public unrest. Conservative Muslim cleric Ayatollah Khomeini, who had led the popular movement against the Shah, will return triumphantly from exile two weeks later.
January 29: Chinese premier Deng Xiaoping arrives in the U.S., where he is warmly received. President Carter warns him against a move into Vietnam, but the Chinese will invade less than a month later.
March 8-14: President Carter journeys to the Middle East in a last-ditch attempt to save the unraveling Camp David agreement. He succeeds after it appears all hope is lost.
March 26: Sadat and Begin sign the historic Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty on the White House lawn.
March 28: A nuclear reactor accident at the Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania causes widespread alarm. Within days, former nuclear submarine officer Carter visits the damaged reactor to assess the situation and calm fears. The next month, 65,000 demonstrators march on Washington and demand a shutdown of America's nuclear plants. Carter issues a statement saying that it is "out of the question."
June 18: President Carter and Soviet Premier Brezhnev sign the SALT II arms control agreement in Vienna.
July: Truckers blockade expressways and set off the nation's first energy riot in Levittown, Pennsylvania, resulting in two nights of violence. One hundred people are injured and more than 170 arrested.
July 3-12: Carter holds a "domestic summit" at Camp David to address the energy crisis and figure out how to rescue his presidency from record low approval ratings.
July 15: In a dramatic, nationally televised address, Carter addresses what he calls a "crisis of confidence" in America. Though initially well-received, many object to the tone of what is soon dubbed the "malaise" speech.
July 17: President Carter asks his entire cabinet to resign, eventually accepting five.
August 15: U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young resigns after a private meeting with a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the latest in a series of controversies.
September 2: Carter welcomes Nicaraguan Daniel Ortega and other Sandinista leaders, who have just toppled dictator Anastasio Somoza, to the White House. He provides them with $118 million in aid.
September 15: Carter collapses during a road race near Camp David, contributing to a growing public perception that he is weak.
October 22: Carter allows the ailing Shah of Iran to enter the U.S. for medical treatment.
November 4: Outraged by the Shah's welcome in America, militant students overrun the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seizing 66 hostages. The 444-day Iranian hostage crisis begins.
November 6: Surrounded by his family at Massachusetts' historic Faneuil Hall, Senator Ted Kennedy formally announces he is running for president.
November 14: President Carter issues an executive order freezing all Iranian assets in the U.S.
November 17: The Iranians release 13 black and female hostages, keeping 53 captive.
December 4: Carter officially announces his candidacy for re-election.
December 25: The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
1980
January 3: In response to the Soviets' Afghanistan invasion, Carter asks the Senate to table the SALT II Treaty and recalls Ambassador Thomas Watson from Moscow.
January 21: Carter crushes Kennedy in the Iowa caucuses, carrying 98 of 99 counties.
January 23: The president announces the "Carter Doctrine" in his State of the Union message. Any Soviet military intervention in the Middle East will be treated as a direct threat to U.S. national security.
February: Carter beats Kennedy in the New Hampshire primary.
February 20: The president urges a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
March 25: Carter loses the New York primary to Kennedy by 16%.
April 24: A hostage rescue mission, called "Desert One," ends in disaster when two helicopters fail, and a third crashes into a plane during takeoff. Several days earlier, Secretary of State Vance had resigned over the decision to proceed with the mission.
May 18: The Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington State erupts, killing 57. It is the most destructive eruption in U.S. history.
July 28: Republicans nominate former California Governor Ronald Reagan for president. Moderate Illinois congressman John Anderson has already dropped out of the Republican race and entered the presidential contest as a third-party independent.
August 4: Carter holds a news conference on "Billygate," the controversy over his brother Billy Carter's dealings with the Libyan government.
August 13: The Democrats nominate Carter.
Early September: The Iranian government indicates they are willing to discuss the release of the hostages.
September 21: Ronald Reagan and independent candidate John Anderson debate in Baltimore. Carter refuses to participate because of Anderson's presence.
September 22: Iraq invades Iran.
October 28: The one and only debate between Carter and Reagan takes place in Cleveland. Reagan effectively brushes aside Carter's attacks by saying, "There you go again," and seals his dominance of the evening with his closing question to voters: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
November 2: The Iranian parliament issues a statement making it clear the hostages will not be released before the election.
November 4: Reagan defeats Carter 51% to 41% in the popular vote, and in a landslide of 489 electoral votes to 49.
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2007-03-07 19:37:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋